5.4.0.5: At first, thought I was doing well booting from an SD card into 256Mb. Res. was OK but a little egg-like distorted, wi-fi recognised and working. Several utilities and PupControl working well.
That's when it refused to boot Firefox. Installed Opera - OK. Opera needed Flash. Get-Flash; not working, referred to PPM. d/l Flash from PPM. only one offered, might've been from the 10series? Restart X. Tray missing. Wrong res., right click gives wrong menus, Opera still bleating about wrong Flash. Only way out was via CTRL-ALT-BKSPCE. Didn't get around to loading the delta. All very disappointing. Maybe needs (a lot) more memory - even more disappointing. Got two clients running 5.3.7.7 very successfully and raving about Opera. Promised them an upgrade! Hey ho - over to you mick, the magician! And, please, back to Opera despite your reservations, it's just received top plaudits somewhere according to my spies who couldn't remember where they saw/read about it.
Otherwise, great weather in Wales, isn't it Terry - think they're wallowing in snow and ice in England - must be an omen for the big match!

Next day: Yup! It is a memory, or lack of it, feature. Stuff the board with 2G and all the above issues disappeared. Too much! Maybe a swap partition would've sufficed - don't have time to check that. The 11series Flash eventually turned up in the PPM and worked with Opera, except it showed a list of deps that proved utterly irrelevant and un-needed.
Just a 'fat trimming' exercise, then, mick! Perhaps, bring back slimSlacko?! We all know where bloat leads...

<Add: Another thing I learned is that there is now a Netflix app for ubuntu (at least. It includes wine, silverlight, and mono so it is 250MB at least--but it did work.

Hi Playdayz, did you try that PPA on Ubuntu, or did you go hardcore and git Wine+patches, then full build from scratch?
I attempted getting Wine from git, apply patches, etc... on Slacko 5.3.1, but no dice, I got the dreaded netflix message error 5004.

<Add: Another thing I learned is that there is now a Netflix app for ubuntu (at least. It includes wine, silverlight, and mono so it is 250MB at least--but it did work.

Hi Playdayz, did you try that PPA on Ubuntu, or did you go hardcore and git Wine+patches, then full build from scratch?
I attempted getting Wine from git, apply patches, etc... on Slacko 5.3.1, but no dice, I got the dreaded netflix message error 5004.

I was wondering if you had any success on Slacko for Netflix?

Cheers.

lol a lot of effort and patches went into that netflix app for ubuntu this is one thing I hope some puppy person will scarf over and create a single sfs file for the rest of us. would not be me, I lack the internet speed for download after download of the ppa

lol a lot of effort and patches went into that netflix app for ubuntu this is one thing I hope some puppy person will scarf over and create a single sfs file for the rest of us. would not be me, I lack the internet speed for download after download of the ppa

Hi Ted,

knowing that the PPA is Ubuntu special, I went through the effort of doing everything from scratch (downloading the specific wine version from GIT, applying the required patches, configured the build, built it, then same with installing the gecko engine for wine, the correct firefox etc...); all in all, took about a day including all the download and compile time.
But alas, all in vain, because Netflix still rejected the streaming request... Not sure how the others are faring on Slacko, but I refuse to install Ubuntu, because Slacko is that much better. For my netflix needs I have a Boxee Box aside or the wife's windo7 laptop. Obviously, I'd still rather like to be able to do it on Slacko.

I have a Dell keyboard with a multimedia volume control knob and bunch of other shortcut buttons like browser, home directory, mute,etc... Amazingly, Slacko 5.5 had the volume knob working out of the box in default jwm.

But because one is never happy as is, I felt the need to install Compiz (which works great, thanks Mick'! for your setup script and SFS). Running either xwin dummy1 or xwin dummy2, I lost the ability to use the volume button.

For those who want both Compiz and multimedia buttons (same method should work for any keyboard), here is how I fixed my problem:
1) determine your key code
to do that, run

Code:

xbindkeys -k

The application will ask you to press the corresponding key (in my case, I turned the volume key of the keyboard in the up direction)
the output should look something like:

Code:

"(Scheme function)"
m:0x10 + c:162
Mod2 + NoSymbol

2) Modify

Code:

/root/.xbindkeysrc

Add the lines you got from running "xbindkeys -k"
Change the content in between the quotes with the function you would like executed when the key is pressed. For example, to get volume up action, I changed

Code:

"(Scheme function)"
m:0x10 + c:162
Mod2 + NoSymbol

to

Code:

"amixer -c0 sset Master 1+"
m:0x10 + c:162
Mod2 + NoSymbol

3) Repeat for all the keys you'd like a shortcut to with whatever application you'd like.

4) Enjoy multimedia keyboard in Linux

Note for sound action:
Volume up:

Code:

amixer -c0 sset Master 1+

Volume down:

Code:

amixer -c0 sset Master 1-

Toggle mute:

Code:

amixer -c0 sset Master toggle

"Master" is my master PCM; it might be different for you; to get the correct name, just run:

Code:

amixer -c0 scontrols

"-c0" is your primary sound card; if you want a list of your available sound cards, just run:

Seems my HP/Compaq with AMD x2 and Novoux something
is too old for Slacko 5.5 it works good with this sfs
puppy_slacko_5.4.sfs from 1 December 2012
I now want to use Firefox 20 instead of FF17 but
seems my structure to have .mozilla on the /mnt/home
makes the updating confused. Not sure what to do about it.

another question about the time in lower right corner
looks like this
02.04

where do I edit so it looks like the Lupu 528 did

Sunday 07 April 2013 02.04

I have looked and looked and clicked on things
and used google and fighted this for days now
it is a banal thing but very annoying to not get sorry_________________I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though

I now want to use Firefox 20 instead of FF17 but
seems my structure to have .mozilla on the /mnt/home
makes the updating confused. Not sure what to do about it.

Hi Nooby,

not sure how to solve your clock/date issue. I personally run Cairo-dock 3.2 which has a very nice clock plugin and removed the default clock. Note: I manually compiled cairo-dock 3.2 from scratch including plenty plugins; if anyone interested I could turn it into .pet.

Now, for your Firefox question, what I did and know works, was just keep the .mozilla in place, but replaced it with a symlink pointing to my separate mounted partition. Let me know if you need a step by step for your particular configuration.

Add: Another thing I learned is that there is now a Netflix app for ubuntu (at least. It includes wine, silverlight, and mono so it is 250MB at least--but it did work.

Hi Playdayz, did you try that PPA on Ubuntu, or did you go hardcore and git Wine+patches, then full build from scratch?
I attempted getting Wine from git, apply patches, etc... on Slacko 5.3.1, but no dice, I got the dreaded netflix message error 5004.

It has been working fine for me in U 12.10. The thing is that without it I would need to dual boot windows so my wife could use our laptop to watch Netflix--but with it I dual boot Ubuntu and Slacko. I don't think it even works for other Linux distros so I would not be optimistic about it working in Slacko. It might have a better chance in Upup Precise or Raring.

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